This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...post, which surrendered July 4. Cahokia and Vincennes were gained by moral suasion through the efforts of a priest, Father Gibault, whom Clark had won over to the American cause. Thus in less than a month was the whole Illinois country secured for the struggling United States of America. Clark could ill spare men to ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...post, which surrendered July 4. Cahokia and Vincennes were gained by moral suasion through the efforts of a priest, Father Gibault, whom Clark had won over to the American cause. Thus in less than a month was the whole Illinois country secured for the struggling United States of America. Clark could ill spare men to guard the posts taken, so he left but two at Vincennes, a captain and a private. About six months later General Hamilton marched from Detroit with eight hundred British soldiers to recapture the fort. On the approach of the enemy the two sturdy defenders placed a loaded cannon at the gate, and the captain, lighted match in hand, called "Halt!" The British forces halted, and General Hamilton demanded a surrender. The captain refused unless the garrison was accorded all the honors'of war. After some parley this was granted. The surprise of the British may be imagined when out marched, with colors flying, two men--one officer and one private! It is to be hoped that General Hamilton saw the point of this American joke. But the story of Vincennes is not yet finished. George Rogers Clark has yet a word to say. About a month after its recapture, learning that Hamilton had retained less than one hundred men to garrison the post, and also that with these and five hundred Indians he intended to attack Clark at Kaskaskia in the spring, the latter GEORGE ROGERS CLARK decided that he would rather be the attacking than the attacked party. Not waiting for spring, with less than two hundred men, he set out February 4, 1779, on a march which has few parallels in history, a march of two hundred miles across flooded rivers just escaping winter's icy grasp, and over prairies and swamps covered with ice, water and mud. Such a march might well daunt any but...
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